Archive for the 'SQL Server' Category

End of March, I had a chance to dig a bit deeper into MS SQL Server analysis. The german chapter of PASS (http://www.sqlpass.org) organized one of their “Essentials”, a condensed training day with a specific topic. This one was named “SQL Server Analysis” and was held by Andreas Wolter (MCSM) in Nuremberg. Here comes my “look-at’s” – the usual public scratchpad of what I want to review as follow-up of an event.

There are two SQL Server related IO benchmark tools (like ORION that I’m familiar with, by Oracle): SQLIOSIM and SQLIO.

Event Tracing for Windos (ETW) is supported for MSSQL since Version 2008, use Windows Performance Recorder for that.

I have not been able to blog for a while. My family has grown, and so there have been different priorities.

In the meantime, I was told to become responsible for a few MS SQL Server databases as well. I took it for a challenge, and started digging into a different world. Well, sometimes different, sometimes similar.

One of the first questions I will have to answer for myself is the penalty for using snapshot read consistency – you know, avoiding read locks in the Microsoft way: Copy the block into tempdb, maybe anybody will need it. As an IO- and performance junkie, my backside notices pain in advance. We will see.